It’s no secret that AMD is trying to carve out an even bigger share within the server market with their enterprise EPYC processors, and far fanfare has been made concerning the excessive core-count provided for the worth when in comparison with Intel’s Xeon vary of processors. The ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T seems to be to make the most of all the processing energy provided by AMD’s EYPC, and the EPYCD8-2T has a professional-centric characteristic set constructed into its ATX design. We even have eight reminiscence slots, as much as 9 SATA ports, has two OCuLink to U.2 slots, twin 10 G Ethernet, and 7 PCIe 3.zero slots. This mannequin additionally helps each AMD’s EPYC 7001 Naples and 7002 Rome processors (Rome by way of an replace).
ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Overview
ASRock Rack is the enterprise arm of ASRock, and caters to the workstation, server and knowledge heart market. For the longest time, ASRock Rack catered primarily to Intel’s choices, together with Intel Xeon and the big Atom designs. Now the corporate has a small however increasing staff specializing in the EPYC aspect of the market, and the ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T is an ATX sized resolution which is suitable with each Naples and Rome. Today we will likely be specializing in the EPYCD8-2T and its server and workstation characteristic set.
The ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T is an ATX sized single LGA 4094 socket possibility designed for AMD’s EPYC processors. The board has an all-green PCB and has a transposed CPU socket designed for extra environment friendly airflow when put in right into a 1U or associated chassis kind. Memory help stretches throughout eight slots with help for RDIMMS as much as 32 GB, and LRDIMMs as much as 128 GB per slot. This signifies that the EPYCD8-2T can home as much as 1 TB of DDR4 working in eight-channel. This mannequin has helps DDR4-3200/2933/2666/2400, each within the RDIMM and LRDIMM selection.
Providing BMC upkeep capabilities is the stalwart Aspeed AST2500 administration controller which permits customers to remotely handle the system. The networking is taken care of by an Intel X550-AT2 Ethernet controller which gives twin 10 G Ethernet on the rear panel. A separate Realtek RTL8211E performing as a devoted IPMI Ethernet port, with a D-sub 2D video output powered by the Aspeed AST2500.
On the PCIe entrance, the ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T has loads of growth slot help to take advantage of the 128 lanes from the CPU. which embody 4 full-length and three half-length (however open-ended) PCIe 3.zero slots. These slots function at x16/x8/x16/x8/x16/x8 which makes for a complete of 88 PCIe 3.zero lanes devoted to graphics and growth help.
For the storage, ASRock Rack consists of two mini SAS HD connectors which every provides the potential to put in as much as 4 SATA units, with as much as eight in whole. A separate SATA DOM port permits for one more SATA machine to be put in bringing the boards whole of SATA functionality as much as 9. A complete of two PCIe 3.zero x4 M.2 slots are situated vertically beneath the right-hand aspect financial institution of reminiscence slots, with two OCuLink ports simply to the precise of the DRAM slots for U.2 units.
ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Block Diagram
The ASRock EPYCD8-2T was initially constructed for Naples (7001), however Rome (7002) is supported by updating the firmware to v2.30. It is value noting that this replace requires a 32 MB BIOS chip – some of the early models (like ours) solely have a 16 MB chip.
The efficiency of the ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T is aggressive with different fashions we have now examined, together with the GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0. In comparability to the GIGABYTE mannequin, the EPYCD8-2T exhibits significantly better energy effectivity with a powerful exhibiting in our lengthy idle energy testing, in addition to at full-load with our AMD EPYC 7351P processor. Server and workstation motherboards are likely to take longer as well up into Windows because of controller and BMC initialization throughout POST, however our POST time testing exhibits the…
